Thursday, 3 October 2013

Dilemma for John Key

When is the
right time to run a referendum, over Christmas, in the middle of school
holidays, slap bang in the middle of a rugby world cup?

When the
public signed the petition to instruct the government to hold a non-binding
referendum on the National coalition Government policy of selling off our
state assets, it caused a dilemma for John Key in particular.

Key had,
during the 2011 general election made it clear that he intended to sell off
state assets regardless of the public’s views on the issue. He sought a mandate
via that election to forge ahead with the biggest sell off of public assets
since the days of Roger Douglas and Ruth Richardson during the mad rush into
poverty back in the early eighties the era of neo-liberalism gone mad.

This was
the era when John Key money trader made his personal fortune by money
manipulation and slight-of-hand deals.

Later as we
are now all aware the plastic bubble burst and the Ponzi style deals came
tumbling down around various nations’ ears, and millions of people lost their
jobs, homes and retirement savings. Like all Ponzi schemes the last ones in,
paid dearly as their money was swept up by the Ponzi designers, one of which
was John Key. Those responsible for these now well recorded were bailed out by
governments that were controlled by huge corporates and multi-billionaires
using the excuse that they were too big to go bust.

Unfortunately
for John Key but fortunately for the rest of the population there is no rugby world-cup
due, but there are school holidays and Christmas looming so the government has
decided to hold the required referendum during the November / December period.
I’ve no doubt that the Coalition National government public relation
strategists recognised the danger of holding the referendum at the same time as
the next general election [which would be normal so as to keep costs down] was
dangerous because polls have shown clearly that sixty percent plus are opposed
to the asset sales.

Regardless,
of the hugely and obvious manipulation, by the concerned national party with
its political eye on the next election, they and their hungry corporate friends
will mount a extremely costly campaign to sway voters to support the sell off.
Expect to read of job loses, increase taxation and the sky falling-in as the
campaign heats up.

We should
encourage all our friends to vote to stop the asset sales. Go to the reference
below to join up with a community based campaign to ensure success to protect
those assets we have all already paid for. To pay twice for the same assets is
stupid in both a financial and social sense.